In the wake of the Southeast Asia’s worst floods in over a decade, affecting 1.5 million people throughout the region, CARE Cambodia is continuing to assist communities to recover by delivering essential supplies to the country’s worst-affected areas.
Michael is seventeen years old. In March, 2011 he fled Telwon, his home village in Ivory Coast, which is about 100 kilometres from the border with Liberia, when it was attacked by armed militias
Tropical Storm Washi made landfall on Dec. 16, 2011. Washi had maximum winds of 65 kph and caused heavy rainfall, flash floods and landslides.
Thailand has been experiencing severe floods for several weeks now. How is the situation at the moment?
Sitting three deep in a glorified canoe, I’m carefully motored across the Plane of Reeds on the Mekong Delta in south west Vietnam. I’m told that six metres below the water’s surface sit rice fields, land which only a month ago held hope of a buster harvest, with it the offerings of a livelihood and a helping hand out of extreme poverty.
GENEVA (November 3, 2011) – A tropical depression brought heavy rains to Central America destroying houses, damaging infrastructure and devastating large swaths of farmland.
“Today, Oct 24 is a public holiday in Thailand. We have just completed an assessment on the situation of migrant workers who are affected by the floods in a few selected areas around Bangkok. There seems to be very little emergency assistance for those workers, who have no means to support themselves.
As the latest rainy season in Niger has been erratic, CARE International warns that the country is at risk of facing another food crisis in the coming months.
Last year, 20 percent of households in Niger were affected by a devastating food crisis. The village of Moujia, located between the cities of Konni and Tahoua in the center-west of the country, gave a picture of the situation at that time
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
